Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-29
ErEland.
IN THE COMMONS.

C)luLuOHS luIS evening OH hSufy hOl
land, replying 70 d question, stated tina
the Canadian Parliament possessed au
thority TO purchase and direct the opera
tiOns If armed cruisers in the Canadian
waters without the consent of the Impe
rial Government. An act of 80 CAV,
Canada power to legislate in all matter.
relative to militia and military and nava
defense.
w. H. Spith, government leader
intimated that the government hac
decided to ask the House to pass to G
second reading the Irish criminal Law
amendment bill before proDosirg the usual
Easter holiday. Cheers anu counter
cheers. The government" said Mr.
Smith, "disavowed any intention to
menace the House, but they wished
the members to understand that the
measure vas vital to order
in Ireland, that it wss one on which the
government staked its existence, and was
more important than the holidays"
Baifour, Chief Secretary for ireland,
moved the first reading of the bill. In
dong so he referred to the terms of Par
nell's proposed amendment to the bill IN
which the Irish lesder claimed the House
should obtain further Information of
the condition Of Ireland. BaIf0ur
thought he was sufficiently Informed and
should recognize Irish anarchy as an
ertifcer recognizes his own work. The
government did not rest the case on
statistics Of agraTian crimes. They took
the view that the amount of crime must
be considered in conjunction with its
causes. At the present moment there
were 1913 persons in Munster, I75 IN Con-
naugh. and PSI in Dublin under police
protection. The law had been set aside,
the vacuum had hot beer filed by ord
mary law. BalfoGr read mum
Der of charges made by judges to
grand juries showing the number
persons actually charged bore no relation
to the amount of crime. Boycotting and
intimidation he said were rampant in
that part of the country most disturbed
The men who gave testimony who were
non partisans (Parnellite cries of
dissenU were paralyzed by threats.
Law was necessary to specially
check this. The trouble arose from the
difficulty Of inducing intimidated wit
nesses to speak out. In 755 cases, APP
injured parties were SO terrified that they
refused to appear, and when evidence was
the jaries even declined in the
cases to convict. Here he adj
duced long list OF cases in which juries
the evidence as presented,
and he asked if it was 10 be wondered at
when the National press pointed out the
luTymen giving the verdict and held them
up 70 the pabIic Reproduction and secret
Those persons desiring the
separation of Ireland were ready to
4hni oh
erCise of aVoWed terrCism. The
Jury system thus became
Impracticable. Parnellite laughter
The place which the law ought to ill was
occupied by the National League. The
of the league relied upon secret
society, dynamite and the dagger, the OBJ
ject of which WAS to bring about q state
Of anarchy by means of assassination.
1t was an absurd travesty of
iacts, he declared, TO say that
the league had any resemblance |
10 trades union. The initial League
was combination for the plumber of III
1ividuals. The speaker proceeded to !
give instances of b0yCOtting, out was re
)estedIy interrupted from the ParnelIites |
Or the names of the bOycOtted. He de- |
;lined to give the names unless the per
sons were beyond the reach of the members |
If the League. Belfour next read ex |
racts from United Ireland including the |
extent of the system of terr1Iizing. He
aid the latest official returns showed |
$50 persons boycotted under
orders from the League In
many districts the tenants rights
lad become valUeless No selling of |
lights was possible unless sanctioned by
he League. No tyranny however cruel
ould compare with this anarchy.
BEGGING FOR IT.
LONDON, March 28.-Prince Ferdensnd |
# Sake Coburg has written to members
# the Sobranje expressing his desire to
re nominated for the Bulgarian throne.